ATTENTION FRESHMAN: New Academic Services in New Hampshire dorm area
On September 26th, The ANNEX, a new portion of The Center for Academic Excellence located in New Hampshire 3 West will be opening up for all freshmen.
The ANNEX is an area for freshman to seek tutoring opportunities and personal support. This area will be run with the help of peer leaders who are trained role models, leaders, and who are simply people that are there for anyone who needs help. The peer leaders will not only provide new students with a friendly face and a person to talk to, but they have also become trained tutors that will be around to help freshman with all of their IC and Intro courses.
The exact hours of The ANNEX are still be ironed out, however, this center is meant to help students when classes are over and The Center for Academic Excellence had closed. As of right now, students will be able to access NH 3 West until 9pm.
“I am really excited about The ANNEX. I really hope that students will check it out and enjoy this new space that we have been able to provide them with. I also want us in The Center from Academic Excellence to remain open minded so that we can easily change it to better serve the students,” said Patti Vorfeld.
The ANNEX will have an open door policy so no student will have to make an appointment. A schedule of the peer leaders will also be posted so that if a student has a specific person they want to work with they know their exact availability.
There will be no changes with The Center of Academic Excellence; The ANNEX is just an expansion of the services to be offered. The ANNEX was a idea that blossomed in the Spring when there became recognition that the students needed a comfortable and quiet place to study close to their residences. Facilities for The ANNEX will provide 3 rooms with comfortable chairs, desks, computers and areas for students to bring in their personal laptops.
Peer Leader, and future ANNEX support staff, Kate Levesque said, “the new student study lounge will be beneficial for the new freshman to help out with various academic challenges.”
Contact Patti Vorfeld for more information at Vorfeldp@franklinpierce.edu
Carol Evans, CEO of Diversity Best Practices and President of Working Mother Media
Carol Evans, CEO of Diversity Best Practices and President of Working Mother Media was on campus October 1st at 4:30pm in Pierce Hall to present about the balances between being a working woman and mother.Carol Evans, the award-winning author of This is How We Do It: The Working Mother’s Manifesto, has won numerous awards, most recently the Admiral Grace Hopper Women’s Diversity Champion Award from the U.S Navy. Evans founded Working Mother Media in August 2001 after acquiring Working Mother Magazine and the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), becoming the first mom to own Working Mother.
Working Mother Magazine was first launched in 1978 where for the first 10 years Evans worked as a single woman as the advertising director and VP publisher. From 1989 to 2001, Evans took some time away from the magazine and ran two publishing companies however; in late 2001 Evans came back and bought the company. Evans bought the magazine just three weeks before 9/11, “My story for working mother is one of timing, We had lost 5 million dollars before we had really opened our door,” said Evans regarding the hard times she had with Working Mother during the last couple months in 2001 into 2002.
Being a working mother is a very hard task today, 70% of mother’s work outside the home, 40% of breadwinners are moms and 32 million moms are working in the country today. Women are responsible for 85% of the sales in this country across the boards. Woman may work for money like men do but mothers have a higher concern for money in regards to supporting the family, most importantly their children. “The future for a mother resides not in herself, but in that of her children,” said Evans.
Working Mother Magazine was created to help support mothers nationwide; to help them better balance work and family. “We all either are moms or have moms. Moms are a special breed of women who want and need support, but get so little,” said Evans. The magazine has been in circulations for 31 years and since the 70s they have always received letters to the editor saying the same thing, “Thank you so much for being there. I don’t feel so alone.” Working mothers always feel so guilty because they can’t be at home with their children, Working Mother is there to help mothers balance work and balance family so that mom and their children do not feel deprived of each other.
Evans stresses the issue of being straightforward with your wants and needs. It is very important to lay the need on the line if you need it. “We are so busy imagining a response that we don’t ever get to asking for help,” said Evans.
